Family reunion

Well, I am still slow to catch up on my blogging! Anyway, we went to my family reunion at the beginning of August and we had a great time visiting for the afternoon.

Preston and my mom

Carl, Preston and my cousin's dog looking at the chickens. Preston loves chickens and will walk around making chicken sounds

My cousins Beth and Amy (Amy is pregnant!)

Amy and her husband Mitch

Preston playing catch with cousin Ethan

Ethan, Preston and Corey

Riding in the wagon

Playing with squirt guns

Here are some pictures from when my brother Lucas and sister-in-law Leslie were visiting this summer.

Sitting by the dogs water dish

Reading with Uncle Lucas

Lucas pushing Preston around in our cooler

A day at the lake

While my brother and his wife were visiting in August, we made it to a lake to do a little swimming. My sister had the day off, which was fun to hang out with all my siblings.

Preston and my sister Mandy

My Grandma's birthday party

For my grandma's birthday, we had a party at the 9th Street Venue (that my mom and her sister's have been renovating) in Klamath Falls. We had a great time visiting with family and friends.

Preston with Uncle Lucas

Preston with Cousin Rune

My grandma, my mom and my two aunts

Me, my sister, brother, grandma and cousins

Eating with daddy

Preston had so much fun running with Rune in this large room

Playing in the curtains

Everyone was looking at a book that put together by my grandma's niece for my grandma that tells about our relatives , dating back before the 1800s

Family pictures

My brother and sister-in-law

Hiking

Here are some pictures from August when we went on a short hike up Roxy Ann. Preston loves being outdoors!

More pictures

Preston with his aunt Mandy and her dog Lucy. Preston loves them!

Camping photos

I am behind on posting summer pictures. We have been busy and I have been taking a graduate level class that has been taking up a lot of my sacred nap times, when it is best to post. Anyway, we went camping in the end of July at Waldo Lake with two other families that my families has been camping with for more than twenty years now! This camping trip was especially interesting because there were an endless number of mosquitoes!! They were out night and day and nothing detoured them other than if we were in our tent or our screened-in tent. We had mosquito sprays, citronella candles... you name it and we tried it. Even the dogs were swelling up from being bitten all day long! I have never seen so many mosquitoes in my life. At night, I would get in the tent to put Preston to bed and I would have to spend the next ten minutes killing at least 20 mosquitoes that has entered even though I had crawled in the tent as quick as I could. And in the morning, we would wake to the buzzing sound of mosquitoes and when I opened my eyes, I could see hundreds (yes hundreds) of them buzzing above our tent, just waiting to bite us. It was in the mid -80s and we tried to go swimming on the lake (if you have not been there, it is beautiful lake), but the mosquitoes were endless. Anyway, we were happy to come back to our house which is mosquito free. We look forward to going back there another year, when the mosquitoes are not so plentiful! Here are the few pictures we took.

Preston was as happy as can be, despite getting bit constantly

Piggy-back ride

My brother Lucas and his wife, Leslie, under some netting to keep the mosquitoes from biting their faces

Family picture

Playing with the water faucet